Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Feb 10, 2014

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(1) Natasha Khan and Daryl Loo, Dementia Casts Its Shadow Over China.
www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... pared-health-system
(“China has 9 million Alzheimer’s sufferers, the world’s largest group of patients with the disease, according to a 2013 article in the medical journal Lancet”)

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title of print: Alzheimer’s patients overwhelm a system ill-prepared to treat them
(b) quotation underneath the title of print: “In another 20 to 30 years, it’s going to be a big disaster.”
(c) “Yu Xin, a doctor and professor of clinical psychiatry at the Institute of Mental Health at Peking University in Beijing”
北京大学精神卫生研究所北京大学第六医院  于欣

(d) “Kit Yee CHAN, lead author of the Lancet article”
(i) I can not find his or her Chinese name.
(ii) Here is the research article.

Chan KY et al, Epidemiology of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Forms of Dementia in China, 1990-2010: a Systematic Review and Analysis. Lancet, 381: 2016-2013 (2013)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=dementia+lancet+kit+yee+chan

(e) In print but not online is a window with the statistic (however, the statistic does appear in the text): 300  Doctors qualified to treat dementia in China, which has 9 million people with Alzheimer’s disease

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(2) Mark Glassman, Job Creators No More.
www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... s-like-they-used-to
(Private sector, specifically small businesses (defined as employing fewer than 250) and startups (defined as less than a year old) has, since 1993, declined in share of America’s jobs)  


(3) Blockbuster Is Still a Hit--South of the Border.

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title of print: The video chain lives on in Mexico with few rivals and less streaming
(b) What does the summary mean?

The text says, “For now, Blockbuster doesn’t face the existential crisis in Mexico that it did in its home market, [Banco Ve Por Más analyst Juan] Elizalde says. Outerwall’s Redbox, which operates automated DVD kiosks in the US, isn’t available in Mexico. Services such as Netflix has rolled out in Mexico, but only 31 percent of the nation’s households had internet service last year.”
(c) A graphic in print:

“What Remains of Blockbuster

In the US   51[stores]  13 of those franchised US Blockbusters are along the Mexican border

In Mexico   320 [stores]   69 [stores] Blockbusters in Mexico City”

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(4) Susan Decker, Google’s Giant $1 Patent Victory.
(“ When Google reached a licensing agreement with Beneficial Innovations in 2010, it hoped the patent holding company’s lawsuits against [Google’s] customers would stop. {Not so.] So Google sued for breach of contract. On Jan 23 a jury in Marshall, Tex, agreed * * *The nominal damages--$1--were more than enough in this case, since Google’s real objective was to enforce the terms of the deal and not to back down”)


(5) Ashlee Vance, 99% of the World’s Mobile Devices Contain an ARM Chip.
www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... t-where-s-the-money

Quote:

“Given that reach, ARM makes what can seem like an absurdly small amount of money. The company averages pennies on each smartphone sold with its chip designs inside, while Intel makes tens to hundreds of dollars on each of its chips. Last year marked the first in which ARM took in more than $1 billion in revenue. Intel, seen as a laggard tied to the languishing PC market, made $52.7 billion.

“Because of its business model, though, ARM missed most of the upside, while its customers thrived. Smartphone chip maker Qualcomm, for example, grew to a market value that rivals Intel’s.

ARM’s new CEO (since last year) is “aiming to expand ARM’s business and improve its margins by pushing into Intel’s home turf of PCs and servers. * * * but the PC and server markets will be tough for the company [ARM] to crack.

Note: The online title is:

“ARM Designs One of the World's Most-Used Products. So Where's the Money?"

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(6) Vernon Silver, That’ll Be Two iPhones, Please
www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... aly-other-countries
(“Transnational workers rich and poor have long dealt in an ever-evolving system of arbitrage for luxury goods carrying significant price differences around the world. A few years ago, it was Louis Vuitton and Gucci handbags, bought in Paris by Asians who paid for trips home by selling the purses at a markup. In the early 1990s, Levi’s jeans served a similar function for Americans in Eastern Europe. Today, it’s the iPhone, especially that gold 5s

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title of print: Apple’s signature product has become an international currency.
(b) In print but not online, an arrow pointing to the table (also shown online) is a window: “$707.41  Average price in the US of a gold iPhone 5S with 16GB of memory, according to Mobile Unlocked


(7) MDs as Small Business Owners (under the heading “By the Numbers”).
www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... r-from-disappearing

Note: That is print title. The online title is: “Private-Practice Doctors Are Far From Disappearing”



(8) Felix Gillette, Don’t Mess This Up; How lego finally trusted Warner Brothers to bring its minifigs to the big screen (one of the three feature articles in the issue).

Note:
(a) minifig = minifigure
(b) The text does not say it but the producer of the hot movie (“The Lego Movie”) in theaters is Dan Lin  林暐
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Lin
(a Taiwanese-born American film producer [who] spent much of his childhood in Hong Kong, where his father worked, before moving to the United States at the age of five)